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I have a Hungarian keyboard, here's the layout.

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I've just updated to 18.04 (from 16.04) and now I can't enter [AltGr]+[<key>] and [letter] or [AltGr]+[Shift]+[<key>] and [letter] combinations anymore. What I get is just separate glyphs/character, e.g. instead of an à (a with grave accent), which used to work by entering [AltGr]+[Shift]+[7] and then hitting a, I now get just ´a (acute accent and a)

I have gnome-tweaks installed, and I didn't know it's going to override (or rather mess up) entering key combinations. It doesn't matter if I enable Compose Key in it, or whatever key I set as Compose Key, entering keys doesn't work. Even the default example ('compose key followed by C and o will enter ©') provided doesn't work.

Characters, that can be entered in 1 step do work, e.g. [AltGr]+[Shift]+o to get Ø works (see keyboard layout).

But characters where I first need to release keys and then hit another key don't, e.g. as described above with à.

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I don't care how fancy this Compose Key is, I just want the old way of entering keys (based on my keyboard layout) back, because I rely on it heavily. Do I need to get rid of gnome-tweaks?

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    Take a look at this bug. Some of the workarounds there might help.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 5:43
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    The first thing I would try is to create an additional user account, log in to that account, and find out if it works as expected there.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 5:45
  • Hello Gunnar, thank you very much for the reference to the launchpad page. It turned out, my system had no entry in 'Keyboard input method system'. I was not expecting having to select one manually after system installation. I picked iBus and it solved my character entry problem.
    – imrek
    Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 7:38
  • What surprises me is that this used to work in Ubuntu 16.04 without further work in the Language support menu, and even during installation of 18.04 it worked when I selected the keyboard layout and types a few keys into the test textbox.
    – imrek
    Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 7:46
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    Ok. Not sure how that could happen, but good that setting IBus was sufficient to fix the issue for you.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Commented Aug 24, 2019 at 19:12

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I'm answering my own question, but only to document the solution that worked.

It turned out, gnome-tweaks was not at fault here. The culprit was the lack of a Keyboard input method system in Language Support.

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After picking one from the dropdown list the character entry method (as described in the question) works. For reference, Compose Key is disabled in my gnome-tweaks installation.

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